Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb now chairs the UAP Science Advisory Council, a body stood up jointly by the White House, the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the FBI. The Council reports to the UAP Governing Board with a stated mission to resolve the physical nature of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Loeb is a credentialed researcher with a long publication record, but he is also the scientist who spent years publicly insisting interstellar object Oumuamua was alien technology, a claim the broader scientific community rejected. Putting him in charge of the government's official UAP science advisory body is the tension this story is built on. His assembled council spans physicists, a pathologist, a computer scientist, a philosopher, a psychologist, and the founding publisher of a major science outlet.
The full Verge piece is worth reading for what it does not say as much as what it does: whether this council has any actual authority, access to classified data, or enforcement power over how agencies report UAP findings. Those details determine whether this is science or theater.
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